Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 124

Den eh hunt tel eh fine er Yaller Jacket nes, an eh set de calabash close by um dout worry de Yaller Jacket, an eh leff um day, an eh tan off an watch um.

Who acts: Den · What happens: hunt · To what, where: tel

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	nsubj
2	eh	eh	PROPN	_	1 Den	list
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obj
5	eh	eh	ADV	_	6 fine	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nes	amod
7	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 nes	advmod
8	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 nes	compound
9	Jacket	Jacket	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 nes	compound
10	nes	ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 calabash	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 calabash	det
13	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 calabash	amod
14	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 de	compound
15	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calabash	compound
16	calabash	calabash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nes	nmod
17	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 calabash	amod
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 um	case
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 close	obl
20	dout	dout	ADP	_	21 worry	case
21	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calabash	nmod
22	de	de	ADP	_	23 Yaller	case
23	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 worry	nmod
24	Jacket	Jacket	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Yaller	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 day	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 day	det
27	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
28	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	compound
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worry	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tan	punct
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tan	det
33	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tan	amod
34	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	nmod
35	off	off	ADP	_	38 um	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 um	det
37	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 um	compound
38	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tan	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Den eh	tel				fine Yaller Jacket nes a eh de calabash dout worry de Yaller and a eh leff um day a eh tan off a watch um obj	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 124